tired: American Beauty starting a movie with "in less than a year I'll be dead"wired: Eve's Bayou starting a movie with "the summer I killed my father I was 10 years old."
Summer heats up in rural Louisiana beside Eve’s Bayou, 1962, as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they’ve kept and the betrayals they’ve endured.
Eve's Bayou is showing in 1 cinema in New York City - next screening Saturday 24 October at 15:30 at BAM Rose Cinemas.
Next screenings: Saturday 24 October.
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tired: American Beauty starting a movie with "in less than a year I'll be dead"wired: Eve's Bayou starting a movie with "the summer I killed my father I was 10 years old."
Eve's Bayou is a forgotten gem of American cinema. It is a character study that doesn't give away too much, too soon. It rewards the patient viewer, and it also lets the audience decide what memories they choose to take away from the film. Eve's Bayou has a Southern Fried feel mixed with a jazzy New Orleans groove. The cinematography is gorgeous, and the landscape truly is a central character in the film. Kasi Lemmons' directing is near-flawless, and Amy Vincent's cinematography deserved an Oscar nomination. The star has to be Jurnee Smollett's Eve. As she acts way above her years. Also, Lynn Whitfield, Debbi Morgan and Meagan Good all bring awesomeness to the acting table. This might be the most reserve you will ever see Samuel L Jackson. He is not in your face, but he might haunt your dreams. I love the Southern charm, the vodoo, the coming-of-age, the power of words, the magic and the unknown of Eve's Bayou. It is a gift to cinema, and it begs you to unwrap and discover.
the way i legitimately believed this was a horror movie growing up. it’s a drama about secrets and grief and how memory is simply a selection of images, how they can change depending on who’s remembering. it’s a drama but the atmosphere can be so eerie and unsettling. there are skeletons in the graveyard but there are more in the closet
It follows a young girl in 1962 Louisiana whose perception of her family shatters as she confronts dark secrets and betrayals.
It was directed by Kasi Lemmons in 1997, marking her critically acclaimed feature directorial debut.
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